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Skills

Programming: R, Python, Stan

Data science: Statistical modeling and data visualization of survey, network, spatial, and text data. Combining disparate data sources, including from web-scraping and APIs.

Workshops

CSS workshops organized:

Disclaimer

This resume was made with the R package pagedown.

Last updated on 2019-12-01.

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Connor Gilroy

Computational sociologist & PhD student

Currently searching for summer internships in data science or social science.

Education

University of Washington

PhD, Sociology

Seattle, WA

expected 2022 - 2018

Comprehensive Exam: “Community: Origins, Processes, and Consequences.” Passed with distinction, June 2019

Certificate: Special Concentration in Social Statistics. May 2019

University of Washington

MA, Sociology

Seattle, WA

2018 - 2015

Thesis: “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.”
Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award in Social Sciences, 2019

University of Chicago

BA, Biology and Geophysical Sciences

Chicago, IL

2013 - 2009

Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Instructor

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

present - 2016

  • Taught sections at the undergraduate and graduate levels, such as sociological theory, data science and population processes, and Bayesian statistics for the social sciences | R, Stata, Stan
  • Designed and taught an undergraduate course in Data and Society | R

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2017 - 2015

  • Awarded two years of competitive research fellowships
  • Built agent-based model of public opinion change in response to LGBTQ people coming out (with Katherine Stovel) | NetLogo, R (igraph)
  • Analyzed processes of sexuality disclosure using aggregate social media data (with Ridhi Kashyap) | Python (facebookads), R (tidyverse)

Quality Assurance

Epic Systems Corporation

Verona, WI

2015 - 2013

  • Automated testing of web services | C# (Selenium), Python (requests)
  • Manual testing and project management for EHR software | Excel

Publications

Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Expert and Crowdsourced Knowledge for Predictions using Social Survey Data.

forthcoming in Socius

N/A

2019

Anna Filippova, Connor Gilroy, Ridhi Kashyap, Antje Kirchner, Allison C. Morgan, Kivan Polimis, Adaner Usmani, and Tong Wang. (corresponding author)

Reproducible code on GitHub